C.N. Douglas, comp. Forty Thousand Quotations: Prose and Poetical. 1917.
Evasion
Evasion is unworthy of us, and is always the intimate of equivocation.
Balzac.
Evasions are the common shelter of the hard-hearted, the false and impotent when called upon to assist; the really great alone plan instantaneous help, even when their looks or words presage difficulties.
Lavater.